Discipline: Literature – poetry

Jennifer Grotz

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Rochester, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016, 2018

Jennifer Grotz is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, Window Left Open. She's also the translator from the French of Patrice de La Tour du Pin's Psalms Of All My Days and Hubert Haddad's novel, Rochester Knockings. At MacDowell she worke on poems for her fourth collection of poetry. A current Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, her poems from the manuscript-in-progress have recently appeared In The New Yorker and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day project. She is director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences and teaches at the University of Rochester.

Studios

Barnard

Jennifer Grotz worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…

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